On Saturday, 05/27/2017, the crew included: Dana Seiler, Lawrence Song, Steve Giles, Kirk and Cody Rothgeb. We left the slip at 6:00 am headed to a wreck site 31 miles southeast of the Ocean City Inlet. The wreck site, Marine Electric, is a 605' bulk carrier ship that sunk on February 12th, 1983. Once we arrived at the wreck we rigged up several small rods to try our luck at sea bass. The crew wanted to catch a few for the grill and we wanted a few for shark bait. Fortunately the fish we were hungry and we put close to 30 sea bass in their cooler and then decided it was time to try our luck with the sharks. We moved about 2 miles east of the wreck and began chumming. Over the course of the next 5 hours we had seven sharks hooked up and were able to get 5 to the boat and then released. Cody Rothgeb (16 yrs. old) had never been offshore fishing until today and caught his 1st and 2nd shark.

Jim Conway, Rob Griggs and I fished yesterday in the Poormans Canyon specifically targeting mako sharks. We set out our chum bag and baited all three rods using bluefish for bait. We were on the drift for close to an hour when one of the Tiagra 80's began to scream. If you have never seen a mako shoot out of the water doing cartwheels before plunging back into the water check it out on a YouTube video. This fish came out of the water at least 6 times covering several hundreds of water in seconds. Rob Griggs was the angler on this mako and it was his first. Brought the fish back to the Ocean City Fishing Center and it weighed 249lbs. Great first trip of the season!!